They think it betrays their values. I’m not sure how, because hating Jews/Israel and supporting radical Islam is part of their values, and has been for a while
‘It betrays our values’: Progressives grapple with deadly shooting
Progressives are grappling with the killing of two people who worked at the Israeli embassy in Washington by a gunman who echoed a slogan that has become a rallying cry for many American liberals since the start of the war in Gaza.
After his arrest, the man suspected of killing the couple outside the Jewish Museum in Washington on Wednesday night exclaimed “free, free Palestine,” a phrase that has become ubiquitous at peaceful demonstrations and on social media over the past 18 months.
The attack brought renewed focus to a strain of violent radicalism on the left, even as progressives pointed out they share nothing with the gunman except his apparent support for Palestinian rights. What the attack did, they said, was hurt their cause.
“It betrays our values and hands more power to those already pushing authoritarian crackdowns,” said Layla Elabed, an organizer in Michigan and the leader of the Uncommitted National Movement, which arose in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s response to the Hamas attack launched on Oct. 7, 2023.
A fringe, more radical wing of the pro-Palestinian movement has blinked in and out of national attention since the onset of the war in Gaza. Thousands of protesters have been arrested, including dozens who forcibly entered and occupied university buildings. And last year, POLITICO reported that an online network of pro-Palestinian activists in the U.S. included resources on how to “escalate” political actions beyond legal bounds, as well as pro-Hamas content.
Were all those who’ve been protesting on college campuses and in the streets part of the “radical wing”? That’s a lot of people in the radical wing. How about all those wearing Intifada keffiyehs, a sign of murdering Jews and erasing Israel? Just a small group? Those yelling “from the river to the sea”? A small group? All those railing against Jews and Israel online?
Asked if members of the left are doing any soul searching, Kevin Rachlin — the Washington director of the Nexus Project, a left-leaning Jewish advocacy group — said, “I think they are.”
“This is more and more proof that we need to address antisemitism as a full society versus addressing [it] on the left or on the right,” Rachlin said.
Well, I can’t say I am surprised by that answer: when busted for things they have done, like, say, fake hate hoaxes, Democrats tend to say we need to look at it as a whole, not that their people are batshit insane.
Antisemitism historically and in recent years has more closely been associated with fringe groups on the alt-right, including most notably the 2017 “Unite the Right” neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia. President Donald Trump himself dined with white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022.
Yes, there are wackos on the far right who are Jew haters. They kinda hate everyone. But, they aren’t also taking the side of Islamists. And they gained their Jew hatred elsewhere. Democrats learned their Jew hatred and support of radical Islam from their fellow Progressives, particularly in college. And, it is nothing new. This is Time Magazine on May 22, 2025
The Rise of Antisemitism and Political Violence in the U.S.
It’s rather antiseptic, providing data, and, then, of course, J6, but, it fails to dive into where it comes from. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, though a bit more briefly: this is planned by the Islamists, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood and the groups associated with it. It started getting much stronger in the mid-1990s, not just in the U.S. but in European countries and Australia. This is what the MB wanted, part of their playbook: a soft integration of the Western World. Get the West to comply with Islamist beliefs. Integrate them into society. Integrate them into actual law. Create Sharia law, and force the West to comply. Because they want to comply.
They teach this in colleges. The members of the Muslim Student Association, a Muslim Brotherhood backed group, teach it, spread it. It’s a soft push, hitting all the hot buttons of malleable liberal minds. The US government has continued to allow these crazies into the US, even after the first World Trade Center bombing, and, more importantly, after the attack on 9/11. And the hard rise of extreme Islamism after. Britain saw their 7/7 attack, and then still prioritized bringing Islamists into the nation. I could keep going, but, you get the idea, and know lots of this yourself.
Supporters of the pro-Palestinian movement, including liberal lawmakers, found themselves on the defensive after the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in a way that conservatives have had to respond to far-right violence in recent years.
If they are on the defensive, perhaps it’s because Jew/Israel hatred is embedded within the Democrat party. Most in the GOP do not have to defend anything, because those far-right wackos are pure fringe and have nothing to do with the GOP. We don’t bother with them. Jew hatred is part of the Democrats. They’ve elected radicals, such as Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
Now, some pro-Palestinian activists worry the shooting, which federal authorities called a targeted act of antisemitism, could set back any progress they’ve made in their policy goals amid an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza and an expansion of Israel’s military operation in the decimated territory.
They got what they were pushing for: Jew deaths. Own it.
The photo above? That’s from the old Zombietime website. From a march in San Francisco on March 20th, 2004. The Jew hating radicalism was emanating from the colleges, and, as the kiddies graduate they keep those beliefs.
Read: Progressives Grapple With Their Beliefs Causing Murder Of Jews In D.C. »
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